[ROCKTOBER 4] darraghmac Appreciation Day

take out the distortions and it'd be strictly ok I guess

the other week i was thinking while intoxicated that it is almost a template for that very early oasis sound, give or take a little less monody and distortion and a bit more t rex beatles football chants etc etc

its a bit that ok, but I'd go status quo/trex/slade first before assuming noely g was spreading wings any wider

yes i wasnt suggesting he was copying spacemen 3, although its not too unlikely thar he heard them

he probably he did borrow something from ride, chapterhouse etc who were following in their slipstream

youd possibly like the first two albums by ride actually, assuming you dont already know them or think they are shit

I will check em out &thks

I dont v often think "thats shit" but I do tend towards "I dont rly need to hear anything right now" and then its even more seldom I need that anything to be new iykwim

any truth to the rumours you have recently been promoted deems

its happening in instalments is the thing

http://i.imgur.com/b0JDWWW.jpg

nakh fyi my uncle is currently resident in Heinrich boll cottage so there u go

Nice

quite
what qualifies him for that honour
ive still not read more than a chapter of that book

idk there's a selection committee he's a returned emigrant who's settled in Kerry and writes poems and has gotten a bit of notice so I guess that and being from down the road got him this years gig

I know nothing of boll and only a little of Camille souter or paul henry truly I eschew the arts as packaged to us simple islanders

idk who either of those are

I feel better so

paul henry could be the name of a water engineer from westport

he'd be from the Newport side tbh in fact to my experience he'd be from polranny lynchehaun (not polranny sweeney)

any truth to the rumours you have recently been promoted deems

― Hayat Boumkattienne (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:16 (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its happening in instalments is the thing

― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:25 (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for instance the pay just landed (backdated obv, nice)

thank you darraghmac for welcoming drunkposting insufferable me to ilx

was a fan even as a lurker, yet your kindness surprised me; goodhearted ye are

tbh sometimes don’t understand your posts (I’d need like Ulysses Annotated) but always esteem them anyway

deems's posts can be dense sure, although there have been disagreements as to which sense of that word applies

Darragh I'm reading the coldest eye, have you read it and if not can you read it and comment on the accuracy of every declaration made about "The Irish"

Oops, a colder eye I mean
/tipsy

hi drash, I'm as cuddly and soft as it gets. I dont know where I get a rep otherwise tbh. also the hard to understand thing baffles me but maybe its the accent. idk. hi anyway.

wins ive read v little apart from mediocre to good teen fantasy the past few years due to college pressures and a frankly appalling attn span but if you recommend a synopsis or offer what you feel to be a representative quote I'll happily critique the entire work

New q can you recommend some teen fantasy

like, ive been called obtuse a good bit this past year, which is a projected judgement of my motive/position in arguments and usually quite incorrect imo but normally its wins or nakh so its ok, sometimes by eg stevie or xelab posters I like but I tend to annoy and thats ok and sometimes its by genuine honest to god idiots,confused by toasters morons, in which case eh you can only shrug I spose

but to be called obtuse by afl posters is a bit lol tho im a fan of all there obv

xp I cannot, my tastes have been comfort reading of the lowest sort and my recommendations would invariably appall.

I'd recommend stuff to raggett maybe, we've liked same stuff before. I might expand now that my evenings are free but it might be mainly about pensions from now on have u read any good pensions stuff

ACE is a v amusing account of "the modern Irish writers" by the American Hugh Kenner, here is an early tidbit:

The Irish story is more complicated. Plenty of the reading matter and acting matter they produce seems intended for natives alone, but Irish writers have always been naggingly aware that Irishmen do not as a rule buy books, have never bought them, have even inherited a tradition whereby to write when you might be talking is an unnatural act. Books in England are sacred objects, exempt from the 10-percent Value Added Tax: not (until 1 April 1982) in Ireland.

I feel u re extracurricular reading tbh

I'd be happy enough to endorse the thrust of that excerpt every pub has a genius gabber seems a bit rich to scribble it down and sell it to the Brits as work

The opening goes on about the "Irish Fact" and holds up Brian o'nolan as the foremost exponent

It's really lively, I'm only 70 pages in but may post more later if I can be bothered to tap out passages

nakh started a poll before listing derogations (mainly) from Richard Burton about the irish consider that imo

Derogations not my aim! Author is m/l a hibernophile but obv makes a lot of sweeping statements about the place, thought it might be interesting or funny to cross-check w experience

to be called obtuse by afl posters is a bit lol tho im a fan of all there obv

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:50 (48 minutes ago)

somewhat obtuse of you to confuse that term with obscure, your timeworn criticism of the minority interest subforum ilafl

I stand by it yr projecting intention again

XP I know derogation wasn't the aim but aimed accurately (and from Burton and indeed nakh idk can you not take causticity as seriously as from other less interesting sources) and allied with obvious kinship its often as illuminating and intimate as any praise/comment

less srsly I mean

Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan) wrote this on thread GET INVOLVED - will Liverpool win the Premiership 2013/14? on board I Love Everything on Apr 12, 2014

idkw deems means either when he tries for gnomic and ends up somewhere on the verges of inarticulate

― hot takes: audit in progress (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 16:35 (2 months ago)

this is my criticism more than obtuseness as such, you are far less of a rube than most despite the culchie posturing

consider your last tilting against landfills episode in the c_____n thread -- you suggest that both you and your interlocutors /really/ know what you are talking about, when it isn't clear that you do, and even if you did then they probably woudn't

that was amazing work by mencap incidentally

Agree that garden variety incoherence is the main problem with darraghmac's tedious mra vaguebooking, not to pile on or anything

lol at landfills

I fear I'm exactly the rube suggested but in knowing it may have a possible advantage at times. I'm a culchie before all else, without any element of expertise beyond purely functional education in the liberal or classical or what have you spheres highly valued on ilx. seeing as imo there's no accounting for different experiences/education/knowledge otherwise attained so better not to assume it imo.

wider point than discussing just myself obv there's ppl with degrees and private schooling and experience on things I like to discuss and as soon as I disagree with them they're wrong.

MRA, like I reject this utterly obv but fair enough shorthand distaste but its actually one of the things that irks. discussion on ilx on such issues is p much 100% a race to label ppl as in the tent or not, and the results are eh imo they're shit but I'm not getting an online degree on bell hooks to get in the tent to say so.

XP just to be clear u and nakh making oft repeatdd and often valid criticisms are not a pile on, a pile on is digs from ppl I dont like.

tho admittedly as an appreciation thread ye could do with keeping some sort of fair ratio in mind but I'm not a high maintenance kind of guy or anything

Well you have like 20 degrees and I have none and we're agreed you are a good poster and person I just don't relish the next 6000 variations on "____ shaming itt tsk tsk nagl safe space safe space twitter ____shaming *mutters unintelligibly"

Added mra unfairly just to put something before vaguebooking

Xps!

the 2nd ____shaming there shd be ____splaining TO BE FAIR

its a reaction to an otherwise total lack of ilx content, and thats read as reactionary, like tbh I meet an ilxor this stuff never comes up as ive zero interest in most of it and tbftm would readily acknowledge ive zero at stake. ive several wonderful liberal friends etc etc and am kind to the elderly, animals and children irl.

like matt DC landed a srs zing there lately by referencing my lack of content in the clarkson thread and I thought dear god the poor fella thinks that this hollow porridge-consistency triumphalism over a cunt like clarkson transitioning from adored BBC presenter to adored sky presenter is *ilx-level content* and I'm spoiling it and yknow I was shook and sad and sorry for all involved inc me

this is boring I'm a boring subject. how's the liver wins, how's the mystery and wine nakh.

i heard a good story about race in america firsthand where should I post it

DM, I was just in a pub (in London, natch) watching the Celtic v Dundee Utd, Scottish League Cup Final. The loudest, most fanatical, most irrational Celtic fan there was an Irishman. A Dundee Utd player, Sean Dillon, was sent off at which point the Irishman sprang up and exclaimed, "Fuck off Dillon, fuck off back to Dublin, you dorty Jackeen bastard!" and let loose a series of imprecations based on Dillon's apparent provenance as a Dubliner.... then spent the rest of the game apologizing to the couple sitting behind him, who were from Dublin. Anyway, this was the first time I'd ever heard this word, Jackeen. Worth mentioning that one of the co-owners of this extremely dodgy pub is an extremely dodgy Dubliner, whose frankly psychotic brother often works behind the bar but, thankfully for the Irishman, not this afternoon. Also that the Irishman heaped abuse on Dundee Utd, abuse based on their fairly obscure nickname of the Arabs as if they actually were Arabs.